Speeding ticket conviction.

Bummer. I don't know what jurisdiction you got your ticket in, but isn't a court date written on the ticket at the time it is issued? Aren't you given the option to pay the fine, as long as you pay it before the date on the ticket i.e. the court date? I have to agree with Hatley on this one -- speeding is speeding. A hidden trap doesn't make it any more legal. Also, just to clarify, you say you lost your license. Was it suspended as a result of this speeding ticket, or had you already lost it?

Hi Kris, It must be frustrating and hair-tearing for you to be able to do nothing to vindicate your motives and perfect civic mindedness. You feel as if they are telling you to go hang yourself! That is our fate in this system. Read this about another genuine victim of the curse of parking tickets! ".............As Jeffrey Halstrom fought for his life on a St. Michael's Hospital operating table, the surgeon who had been rushing to his rescue was waiting on the side of a road for a Toronto police officer to write him a ticket for speeding. Halstrom, who is recovering in the hospital's intensive care unit, suffered a massive heart attack around lunchtime Saturday. A short time later, Dr. Michael Kutryk, the hospital's cardiologist on call over the weekend, was stopped by a radar unit while rushing from his Leaside home to help. But no amount of pleading or explaining would deter the officer from issuing the physician a $300 ticket, said Michael Oscars, Halstrom's longtime partner........" In the Photo alongside, see the ominous face of a cop determined to do his job dutifully by booking you with a speeding ticket.

It's happened to me, twice! I had two speeding tickets, and boy did I have to pay. I don't want to get any more speeding tickets because I cannot afford them. I have to pay for my own health insurance now, and I don't have the money to pay for tickets.

That would sure ruin a good day. I am so sorry that you were hit with it. I don't know where you could go to fight it unless you get a lawyer to do it for you.

hi kris why not just pay it and do not speed a gain. as a pedistrian who has dodged speeders over the years I have little sympathy with them for getting ticketed for speeding. If you had not gone over the speed limit you would not get a ticket. simple logic. If you ever walk across on a green light and find a car thundering toward you as they ran a red light then you will think twice about speeding. speeders can and do kill people that are innocent. what is so important it could not wait another twenty minutes?

Hello kris182_2000, You are right. No one wants to end the day on a bad news letter!! However, the only thing you can do is to try and find an attorney. Sometimes, you can request a hearing if you can prove that you changed your address, without an attorney. More importantly, just drive the speed limit for the next 5 years. Not only will you save your life and others, your auto insurance rate will drop, and you will be older, another rate decrease. Try not to dwell on it. Fight if you know that you are right. Good Luck. :)